Crime and crash

Texas City, Dec 2: Family members of a Houston-area high school student who killed herself are rallying for tighter laws against cyberbullying. Brandy Vela's family says cyberbullying pushed the 18-year-old over the edge, leading her to shoot herself in the chest Tuesday afternoon at the family's Texas City home as family members watched. Her father, Raul Vela, said she had been receiving abusive

Chennai, Dec 2: When two patrolling policemen stopped a man along a Vadapalani street early on Wednesday, a mask around his face and wearing a wig, they didn't know they had intercepted a killer. He pushed them aside and tried to flee but two other policemen caught him and found a blood-stained knife and a pair of gloves in his bag. The patrolmen took the youth to the Vadapalani police station

Kolkata, Dec 1: Hoarding of the new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes seems to have started in the city in right earnest, less than three weeks into the introduction of these bills. Enforcement Directorate officials raided the chamber of a well-known doctor in Salt Lake on Wednesday and recovered bundles of new notes. Their value had already cros sed Rs 10 lakh by late evening and counting was still on

Kolkata, Nov 30: Three army officers were killed and a junior commissioned officer was critically injured today when a Cheetah helicopter crashed at Sukna Military Camp in West Bengal. Army officials said the chopper crashed around 11.45 AM when it was returning to the camp's helipad at Sukna, near Silgirui, from a routine mission. While three officers died on the spot, a JCO was evacuated and

Agra, Nov 30: At a time when the central government is emphasising on empowering and securing the girl child with the slogan 'Beti bachao beti padhao', in Agra a woman's head was allegedly shaved off and she was physically assaulted by her in-laws after she gave birth to second girl child. The victim, who is suffering from anemia, gave written complaint to police against her husband and in-laws at

New Delhi, Nov 29: Asked to go out of the house late at night so that his brother and his girlfriend could spend time together, a post-graduate DU student bludgeoned his elder sibling to death with a dumbbell at their flat in north Delhi's Burari, early Monday morning. The brothers, whose parents live in Jhansi, argued over the issue as the accused, Himanshu Verma, 23, didn't want to stay out in

Pune, Nov 28: IN A shocking incident, a six-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four minor boys in Chinchwad on Saturday afternoon. The four boys have been detained by the police after the girl told her mother about the incident and an offence was later registered. As per the information given by Pimpri police, the incident took place in a slum area in Chinchwad around 1 pm on Saturday. A

Chandigarh, Nov 27: The Punjab Police and security agencies are investigating the recent activities of the five prisoners who escaped from the maximum security Nabha Jailpremises on Sunday following a well-planned attack by unidentified armed men. Police sources said CCTV footage of the jail, call records of jail officials and others and posts on social media sites were being studied to know the

Ahmedabad, Nov 27: Two robbers, armed with an iron bar and a hammer, made off with 14. 2kg of gold bars after over powering the guard at a cash logistics firm near Mithakhali crossroads, early on Saturday morning. The robbed gold is valued at Rs 4 crore. Sources said CCTV footagehas made police suspect that one of the robbers is a woman. Police also believe that the entire operation took place in

Thane, Nov 26: Seven persons, six of them employees of a co-operative bank here, have been booked for allegedly defrauding customers and the bank to the tune of around Rs 7 crore, police said today. An FIR in this regard was registered last evening and later the case transferred to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) for further probe, Inspector G D Pingle of Chitalsar Police Station said. The